Jurors on Wednesday acquitted a Lawrence man who was accused of barricading himself in a car during a traffic stop and refusing to obey orders while police were trying to arrest him on a warrant.
The man, Louis George Galloway Jr., 33, had been charged with one felony count of interference with law enforcement in the incident, which took place over the course of about an hour on April 23 in the 100 block of ...
A Lawrence man accused of killing his wife in 2022 is now 10th in line after 16 months of waiting for a bed at a Kansas psychiatric hospital. The hospital is expected to restore his mental competency after he was declared unfit to stand trial more than a year ago.
The man, Chad Joseph Marek, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Regan N. (Gibbs) Marek, 25, on May 16, 2022, in the 2500 block ...
A Kansas City man was sentenced to three years of probation on Tuesday in Douglas County District Court for an aggravated battery conviction that was originally charged as a rape.
The man, Zane J. Baugh, 26, of Kansas City, Missouri, was charged in March 2022 with one count of raping a 21-year-old in September 2019 in Baldwin City. In August, he pleaded no contest to the lesser crime of felony aggravated ...
A man was sentenced to just over five years in prison on Tuesday for a manslaughter conviction in connection with a Lawrence man’s fentanyl overdose.
The man, Daniele Francesco Leone, 33, of Kansas City, Missouri, originally faced one felony count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death, but he pleaded guilty in September to the lesser count of felony voluntary manslaughter and one felony ...
A Baldwin City man was still coping with the loss of his wife when a year and a half after her death he received a bill for $43,495 for a 35-mile emergency helicopter flight his wife took from Lawrence to Kansas City, and he fears the outstanding balance might send him into bankruptcy.
Daniel Smith's traumatic ordeal began two years ago. His wife, Linda Joyce Smith, had just adopted a puppy, and one September ...
A Lawrence man was arrested Thursday on a warrant and has been charged with possession of child pornography.
The man, Joshua William Spence, 41, is charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child for possessing a photograph of a child in the nude, according to charging documents. The charge is in connection with an incident on July 19, 2022.
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